Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2025

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Volume 25, issue 6, 2006

The effects of interrupted enrollment on graduation from college: Racial, income, and ability differences pp. 575-590

Stephen L. DesJardins, Dennis A. Ahlburg and Brian McCall

Fertility, relative wages, and labor market decisions: A case of female teachers pp. 591-604

Jaeun Shin and Sangho Moon

Institutional research productivity and the connection to average student quality and overall reputation pp. 605-617

Stephen R. Porter and Robert K. Toutkoushian

Schools, school quality and achievement growth: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 619-632

Marigee P. Bacolod and Justin Tobias

Private school location and neighborhood characteristics pp. 633-645

Lisa Barrow

Asymmetries in progression in higher education in Taiwan: Parental education and income effects pp. 647-658

Jin-Tan Liu, Shin-Yi Chou and Jin-Long Liu

Is there an impact of household computer ownership on children's educational attainment in Britain? pp. 659-673

John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth

Elusive Equity--Education Reform in Post-apartheid South Africa, Edward B. Fiske, Helen F. Ladd. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC (2004), ISBN 0-8157-2480-9 (xiii+268pp.) pp. 675-676

Servaas van der Berg

By a thread: How child care centers hold on to teachers, how teachers build lasting careers. M. Whitebook, L. Sakai, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI, (2004). ISBN:0-88099-301-4 ($ 40 (cloth); $ 16 (paper), 145 pp) pp. 677-678

John M. Krieg

P. Teixeira, B. Jongbloed, D. Dill and A. Amaral, Editors, Markets in Higher Education: Rhetoric or Reality?, Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2004) (354pp. (hb). Address: Kluwer Publishers, POB 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, the Netherlands) pp. 679-681

William Becker

Felix Buchel, Andries de Grip and Antje Mertens, Editors, Overeducation in Europe. Current Issues in Theory and Policy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenam, UK (2003) (Xi+239pp., $105.00) pp. 682-683

Francesco Pastore

Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Editor, Governing Academia, Cornell University Press, Ithica, NY (2004) (324pp., $35.00 Cloth) pp. 684-685

Donald E. Frey

Machin Stephen and Vignoles Anna, Editors, What's the Good of Education? The Economics of Education in the UK, Princeton University Press, Princeton, Oxford (2005), p. 272 ($39.50 (paper)) pp. 686-687

Nick Adnett

Volume 25, issue 5, 2006

Alternative paths to college completion: Effect of attending a 2-year school on the probability of completing a 4-year degree pp. 463-471

Jonathan Sandy, Arturo Gonzalez and Michael J. Hilmer

Marijuana consumption and school failure among Spanish students pp. 472-481

Rosa Duarte, José-Julián Escario and José Alberto Molina

Does alcohol use during high school affect educational attainment?: Evidence from the National Education Longitudinal Study pp. 482-497

Pinka Chatterji

Evidence on the relationship between firm-based screening and the returns to education pp. 498-509

Sarah Brown and John Sessions

Why we should care if teachers get A's: Teacher test scores and student achievement in Mexico pp. 510-520

Lucrecia Santibanez

Demand for public education: Evidence from a rural school district pp. 521-531

Anthony Stair, Terance Rephann and Matthew Heberling

The effects of state funding on property tax rates and school construction pp. 532-542

Elizabeth Plummer

Cost efficiency in the university: A departmental evaluation model pp. 543-553

Víctor Giménez and Jose Luis Martinez

Determinants of human capital formation and economic growth of African countries pp. 554-564

Moses O. Oketch

Does watching television rot your mind? Estimates of the effect on test scores pp. 565-573

Madeline Zavodny

Volume 25, issue 4, 2006

School-to-work and educational reform symposium: Introduction pp. 347-350

David Neumark

Cohort changes in the transition from school to work: Evidence from three NLS surveys pp. 351-373

Marigee Bacolod and V. Joseph Hotz

School-to-career programs and transitions to employment and higher education pp. 374-393

David Neumark and Donna Rothstein

Smoothing the transition to college? The effect of Tech-Prep programs on educational attainment pp. 394-411

Stephanie Riegg Cellini

Educational outcomes of labor-market linking and job placement for students at public and private 2-year colleges pp. 412-429

Ann E. Person and James E. Rosenbaum

Do gains in test scores explain labor market outcomes? pp. 430-446

Heather Rose

Alternative school policies and the benefits of general cognitive skills pp. 447-462

Eric Hanushek

Volume 25, issue 3, 2006

Preface to Special Issue in Honor of W. Pierce Liles pp. 237-237

Elchanan Cohn

W. Pierce Liles: Dedication pp. 238-240

B.F. Kiker

Why do field differentials in average faculty salaries vary across universities? pp. 241-248

Ronald Ehrenberg, Marquise McGraw and Jesenka Mrdjenovic

The role of 2-year colleges in the improving situation of Hispanic postsecondary education pp. 249-257

Arturo Gonzalez and Michael J. Hilmer

College selectivity and the Texas top 10% law pp. 259-272

Sunny Xinchun Niu, Marta Tienda and Kalena Cortes

Data envelopment analysis and its application to the measurement of efficiency in higher education pp. 273-288

Jill Johnes

Mobility and turnover among school principals pp. 289-302

Susan M. Gates, Jeanne S. Ringel, Lucrecia Santibanez, Cassandra Guarino, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar and Abigail Brown

Demand for education in Turkey: A tobit analysis of private tutoring expenditures pp. 303-313

Aysıt Tansel and Fatma Bircan

Evaluating program effectiveness: A case study of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act in California pp. 315-326

David Neumark

Measurement error, education production and data envelopment analysis pp. 327-333

John Ruggiero

International accreditation and brain drain: A simple model pp. 335-340

Donald Lien

S.S. Donald, Skill-Biased Technological Change, UpJohn Institute for Employment, Kalamazoo, Michigan W.E. (1999) pp. viii+139. Price:$30.00/cloth pp. 341-342

Michael Handel

J.E. Groccia and J.E. Miller, Editors, On Becoming a Productive University: Strategies for Reducing Cost and Increasing Quality in Higher Education, Anker Publishing, London (2005) (pp. xxv+358, $39.95 hardcover) pp. 343-344

W. Patrick Leonard

Robert E. Martin, Editor, Cost Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (2005) (258pp., price: $100) pp. 345-346

Edward P. St. John

Volume 25, issue 2, 2006

The effects of age at arrival and enclave schools on the academic performance of immigrant children pp. 121-132

Kalena E. Cortes

Subsidies, selectivity and the returns to education in urban Papua New Guinea pp. 133-146

John Gibson and Osaiasi Koliniusi Fatai

Mexico's labor market: The importance of education-occupation matching on wages and productivity in developing countries pp. 147-156

Michael A. Quinn and Stephen Rubb

Should schools be smaller? The size-performance relationship for Welsh schools pp. 157-171

James Foreman-Peck and Lorraine Foreman-Peck

Convergence of educational attainment levels in the OECD: More data, more problems? pp. 173-178

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

Alcohol abuse and truancy among Spanish adolescents: A count-data approach pp. 179-187

Rosa Duarte and José-Julián Escario

A game-theoretic model of curriculum integration and school leadership pp. 189-199

William J. Stull

Where do the children of professors attend college? pp. 201-210

John Siegfried and Malcolm Getz

The validity of two education requirement measures pp. 211-219

Peter H. van der Meer

Occupational differences between recent male and female college graduates pp. 221-231

Lois Joy

Robert H. Haveman, Andrew Bershadker and Jonathan A. Schwabish, Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI (2003) ISBN 0-88099-255-7 (pp. xii+229, $17.00) pp. 233-234

Peter Groothuis

Hanushel Eric, Editor, The economics of schooling and school quality, Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, MA (2003), p. xiv+440 (Vol. 1)+528 (Vol. 2) pp. 235-236

John Merrifield

Volume 25, issue 1, 2006

Editorial pp. 1-1

Elchanan Cohn

Ten ways to know Paul A. Samuelson pp. 7-11

Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan and Aron Gottesman

Teacher quality and attrition pp. 13-27

John M. Krieg

Access: Net prices, affordability, and equity at a highly selective college pp. 29-41

Catharine B. Hill and Gordon Winston

Does delaying kindergarten entrance give children a head start? pp. 43-62

Ashlesha Datar

Using shocks to school enrollment to estimate the effect of school size on student achievement pp. 63-75

Ilyana Kuziemko

Student achievement and efficiency in Missouri schools and the No Child Left Behind Act pp. 77-90

Diane F. Primont and Bruce Domazlicky

Private returns to human capital over transition: A case study of Belarus pp. 91-107

Francesco Pastore and Alina Verashchagina

Does ending affirmative action in college admissions lower the percent of minority students applying to college? pp. 109-119

Lisa Dickson